Prime Minister Julia Gillard appeared on the ABC’s Q&A program last night. The audience is carefully selected for balance and they were permitted to question Ms Gillard under the moderatorship of host Tony Jones. It was refreshing to see a pretty dignified interaction between all involved. This is a contrast with even the regular editions …

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Here’s a press release from the Australian Labor Party website: Federal Labor to deliver more chaplains for Australian schools. Since it’s a press release, here’s the whole thing: A re-elected Gillard Labor Government will ensure that up to 1,000 additional schools will benefit from school chaplains, with an extension of the National School Chaplaincy Program …

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I received a group email last night that referred to a document of which I was unaware: ‘The Canberra Declaration’. A quick search gave one reason why, the document had only been released on Friday, July 23, 2010. Still, it seemed a bit odd. I like to think that I keep up with what’s going …

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